The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-11-25
SOUTHERN eLEANINes.

/ Fharash Garter died recently at Osyka,
Miss, aged ninety years and some months.
He was a native Of South Carolina. Mr..
/ Carter was highly esteemed.
Colonel J. W. Seattle died at his home
near Trenton, Ark, a few evenings since,
after an ordinary illness. He was we'll
known in the county and State in social
and political circles. He was one Of the
{ prominent planters of Phillips County.
I He leaves a wife and children.
Henry Holman and Jesse James got into
a difficulty ct Redman's Camp, Ga, few
nights ago, when James was cut in the
back, breast and abdomen by Holman.
Holman was arrested in Chattanooga and
taken back to Georgia. The trouble grew
| out of a quarrel over woman.
Henry aIconer, freight conductor on
the Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham
railroad, while coupling cars at Holly
Springs, Miss, few DAYS ago, was run
over and killed. His head was almost
| severed from his body. The deceased was
about thirty three years Of age.
Robert McCreary, son of Ex-Governor,
now Congressman McCreary, shot VIII.
lam Schilling on the street at Richmond
| KY, few nights ago. The mans wound
was not considered dangerous at first
/ but he died from the effect shortly after
| wards.
Two little children, whose parents live
/ on a plantation close to Helena, Ark,
were seriously burned a few evenings
since. One of the children died from the
| effects OF the burns the same night. The
| parents were absent from home, and left
the little ones in charge of themselves
| and large fire burning in the room. The
| father saw the flames issuing from the
house and rushed to the chiIdren's rescue,
but could not save one from a frightful
| death.
Samuel CAthcart made his appearance
| in Chattanooga, Tenn, a few days ago,
| searching for a mysterious woman who
| tried to commit suicide last April by TAX
/ ing morphine in a street car. Cathcart was
| arrested on a telegram from J. Fl. Sulli-
van, cashier of the Laurens Bank, Of
| Laurens, S. c., charging him with obtain
ing money under false pretenses at Green
vile, Newberry and Columbia, S. C. He
was locked mp to await requisition. The
woman he was hunting has been found.
Thomas Green, of Mapsville, KY, shot
| and killed Lew Baldwin, of Nicholasville,
| in political row at Lexington, KY.
| Near Richmond, KY, few days ago, a
/ dozen army crackers were plowed up by a
| farmer. They resembled in appearance
and strength ordinary restaurant pan
| cakes.
| destroyed nearly an entire block in the
I
! from $40, 600 to 500, 900.
The death is announced at her home,
| near Paris, Tenn, of the wife of United
States Indian Commissioners j. d. c. At
/ kins.
A fire at the fair grounds in Jackson,
1 Tenn, a few nights ago, destroyed seven
/ teen large stock stalls. This fire is be-
! Heved to have been the work of an incen-
! diary.
The doctors who announced some time
/ ago that the epidemic of yellow fever at
/ Tampa, Fla, was virtually at an end seem
to have been too sanguine. There were at
last accounts thirteen cases of the disease
in the hospital there.
VIM. Purcell, a farmer, living near
Owensboro, Ky, was run over by heav-
/ lily loaded gon a few days ago. One
! wheel passet fveF his breast aud anoth-
er over his stomach. He lived an hour.
i Extensive forest fires have been raging
throughout the western counties of Ten
nessee and the eastern counties of Ar
kansas. The surrounding atmosphere is
so full of smoke that navigation on the
Mississippi river is delayed.
A portion of the Georgia and Alabama
border is in state of insurrection against
Mormon missionaries, who have been
campaigning for converts with such suc-
cess as to alarm the general community.
( James Wheeler, a young carpenter,
committed suicide at Knoxville, Tenn, a
few days ago by taking chloroform. His
wife, to whom he had been married but
two years, secured a divorce few days
previous to the suicide on the ground of
cruelty, and the subject had been press
ing on his mind.
Thirteen thousand five hundred bales of
cotton were burned at Memphis, Tenn,
few days since by fire which started in
tho buildings of the Merchants Cotton
+ Compress e Storage Company.
/ Charles Favor, a butcher, got into an
alteration with g. Blum, at st. Joseph,
: La, few days ago, and fred two shots
4 at him. He then rode away, called his
sister from school and shot at her. Pur-
sued by sheriff and posse, he fired into
/ the crowd and then put a bullet into his
own breast. indicting a probably fatal
wound. None of the other shots took ef-
feet
Robert McCreary, son of Congressman
I McCreary, was acquitted at Richmond,
KY, at his examination trial for the kill
/ ing of VIM. Schilling, a restaurant keep
er. 1t was held that MeCreary did the
shooting in self-defense.
/ Enough iron for the Tennesses Midland
railroad has already arrived in Jackson,
f Miss, to complete twenty miles Of the
4 track. Those who are in a position to
/ know say the road viii be finished and
& the cars running from ohghsV4 70 Althl-
/ phis by January, 1888.
I Interest in the Shelby Moore murder
/ trial at Wickline, KY. is again rampant,
I by reason of alleged new and important
{ evidence secured by the prosecution.
Shelby viii be taken before the Circuit
/ Judge of Ballard Coun ty this week, on d
writ of habsas corpus demanding that be
F be admit ted to bail in a reasonable sum.
The new gin and gin-house, containing
I seven or eight bales Of cotton and . large
I quantity Ct cotton seed belonging to Mr..
4 Felix d. Lester, a farmer living five or six
miles from Jackson, Tenn, was entirely
destroyed BY fire few days ago. No in
# surance. The origin of the fire is un-
/ known The gin was running when the
! ere broke out.
4 Clubhouse fires are numerous.
When Miss Sadie Aikeus, Of Reeves.
/ Ga, eloped. the other night, she took with
her the family svatch-dog. After the mar
t rage ceremony had been performed she
wrote a note 70 her parents acqualnting
/ them with the fact and imploring their
/ forgiveness tied it to the dogs cellar and
sent him home.
+ One Of the men who took part IN the
1 shooting Of four white men &C Fharrss
Cane Carrier, in Louisiana, has made e
partial confession, which puts the re-
4 suonsFb{lltv of the deed directly on the
1nhst-r workman Of Berwick Lodge
4 Knights # Labor, and the secretary of the
executive beard az that district.
/ A flowing oil well has been found near
+ Palestine. Tex.
1 The vieksburE Herald the ether day
4 contained the notice as the head Of is
f local column. I'VE ask our readeA e
I overlook the Shortcomings in this depart
monE ot the paper. A man can't maks
arraneems nls 70 set married and - tha
same flue write much AocaA news Atss
( g0iag 70 take place to-day"
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